“This regime (Israel) will not last long. Do not tie your fate to it … This regime has no future. Its life has come to an end.” Yet this genocidal thug is coming to speak to the UN.
“Iranian president raises stakes against Israel,” by Parisa Hafezi and Firouz Sedarat for Reuters, September 18 (thanks to LGF2):
TEHRAN (Reuters) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raised the stakes against Israel on Friday and called the Holocaust a lie, just as world powers try to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil.
“The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false … It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim,” he told worshippers at Tehran University at the end of an annual anti-Israel “Qods (Jerusalem) Day” rally.
“Confronting the Zionist regime is a national and religious duty.”…
“This regime (Israel) will not last long. Do not tie your fate to it … This regime has no future. Its life has come to an end,” he said in a speech broadcast live on state radio….
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah which fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006, defended Ahmadinejad and said he was criticised for supporting “the ‘resistance’, the people of the region and Palestine.”
“Our belief and creed … remain that Israel is an illegal entity, a cancerous tumour, that must cease to exist,” he said in a televised address….
Ahmadinejad repeated on Thursday that Iran would “never” abandon its disputed nuclear programme to appease critics.
In an NBC-TV interview, he also offered no direct response when asked whether there were any conditions under which Iran would develop a nuclear weapon.
“We don’t need nuclear weapons,” Ahmadinejad said, speaking through an interpreter. “We do not see any need for such weapons. And the conditions around the world are moving to favour our ideas,” he added….
That much is true.